(1) Protect human safety and health by minimizing adverse impacts of development;

(2) Enhance, preserve and protect unique, fragile and valuable wetlands through the application of best available science;

(3) Direct activities not dependent on wetland resources to less ecologically sensitive sites and mitigate unavoidable impacts to these critical areas by regulating alternations in and adjacent to them; and

(4) Implement the goals and policies of the Growth Management Act and the Stanwood Comprehensive Plan, as well as the requirements of the State Environmental Policy Act. (Ord. 1164 § 4, 2004; Ord. 929 Ch. 10(G)(2), 1995).